I’m French so sorry for the mistakes.

I’m a student at university and I would like to become a teacher of the English language.

My own experience tells me that language teachers do get a foreign accent when they speak their mother tongue.

So here are some questions about that:

How to get a foreign accent (I mean permanently?

I mean, if I speak English for example 4 or 5 hours a day which will happen later on when I’m a teacher, is it “enough” to get an English accent in my native language?.

And another one:

How do you get rid of a particular accent, or try to take one accent?

This counts for short changes (films…) and for definitive alterations in one’s accent.

I have a German accent in French which bothers me a lot, that’s why I’m asking.

Do you think it’s better to keep your original accent when yu are a language teacher?